John Dewey’s Page: Liberty and Social Control

TODAY there is no word more bandied about than liberty. Every effort at organized control of economic forces is resisted and attacked, by a certain group, in the name of liberty. The slightest observation shows that this group is made up of those who are interested, from causes that are evident, in the preservation of the economic status quo; that is to say, in the maintainence of the customary privileges and legal rights they already possess.

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